In the middle of June, Monday and Sunday with seven or eight helpers quietly left Yangzi Town, they first took a boat to Jingzhao Mansion, and then changed to the dart car of the Shunfeng Dart Bureau to go west to Baoji, from here and the Shanchuan Supervision Institute into the Sichuan personnel converged, formed a camel team or called a horse gang, along the Jinniu Road south through Xingzhou, Sanquan, Lizhou, over the Qinling Mountains to Jianmen Pass.

As long as you pass the Jianmen Pass, even if you enter Sichuan, you can go straight to Chengdu in the south, and there is no danger to defend. After entering Chengdu, the people of the Shunfeng Dart Bureau will stay and establish branches, and on Mondays and Sundays, they will continue to hire boats down the river and go east to Kuizhou.

Hong Tao's designated base in Sichuan is not in Chengdu, nor in large and medium-sized cities such as Miangu, Pu'an, Rongde, Luzhou, Baxian, Fuling, and Langzhong, but in a small city on the edge of eastern Sichuan, Fengjie.

This is the seat of Kuizhou's state governance, and it is also the junction of Kuizhou Road and Jinghu North Road. To put it bluntly, Fengjie is on the border of Sichuan and Hubei, guarding the north bank of the Yangtze River, next to the White Emperor City, which is thousands of miles away from Jiangling.

Since Fengjie is on the edge of the Yangtze River, why don't you just take a boat up the river on Monday, after Jiangling, that is, Changsha, and then upstream is Kuizhou. Why bother to go around in a big circle from the north and cross the mountains from Shaanxi to Sichuan?

It's not that Zhou Zhou is stupid, it's not that the waves are confused, it's that the traffic conditions in ancient times are really very different from those of later generations. Since ancient times, there are only two ways to enter and exit the four roads of Bashu, the land route takes the Jinniu Road, Yinping Road, and Micang Road in the north to enter Shaanxi, and the waterway goes down the river, and enters the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River through the White Emperor City.

Land transportation is the main force, starting from Qin to enter Sichuan, you have to go like this, or there will be no Deng Ai smuggling Jinggu Road to put Jiang Wei in a play, how simple it is for the Wei army to simply go upriver from the Yangtze River.

Most of the students in Shu enter Beijing to take the exam from the north into Shaanxi, although the road is not easy to walk, but it is better to be safe, and it is better to be slow than to throw your life in the Yangtze River.

Only when bulk goods go out of Sichuan, or if you want to go to Jiangsu and Zhejiang to do business, you have to choose to go down the river. But when you come back, if you don't have to, you still choose to go by land.

Traveling upriver along the Yangtze River, especially through the Badong Gorge area, is not only dangerous but also expensive, and is almost always dragged along by slender men, which requires a lot of money.

If you don't have a lot of cargo, you can get off the boat from Padang and spiral up the path over Wushan into Shizhou, and then take a boat upstream through the Padang Gorge area.

The road problem is solved, and there is another problem that is also strange. The fourth road of Bashu is prosperous and the economic scale is the first to recommend Chengdu, and compared with the southeast coastal cities of Mingzhou and Hangzhou, Chengdu is not inferior at all.

Tea merchants and grain merchants gather here, not only are there many rich people but also willing to spend money, and the consumer market is very strong. In Su Shi's words, the folk customs of Zhejiang and Shu are extravagant, but the performance is not the same.

"Hangzhou people boast lightly, so beautiful and clean, there are hundreds of thousands of homes, and they must be half decorated with doors and windows, with even more utensils, and they are not able to sell them, and they are not sold for many axes, and they are sold in the market, which is often a gold paint salary." People in Jiangsu and Zhejiang like to talk about pomp, and the cost of decoration and furniture accounts for more than half of the family's assets.

"The Shu people often have hard food and clothing, and the Shu people don't know how to return the amusement. Thousands of people cultivate and feed thousands of people, and they work hard and are idle in a year. "Shu people are in another state, they are more lazy and like to play, as long as there is food at home, they don't forget to have fun.

There are large markets in Chengdu every month, such as the New Year's Lantern Market, the February Flower Market, the March Silkworm Market, the April Jin Market, the May Fan Market, the June Xiang Market, the July Treasure Market, the August Gui Market, the September Medicine Market, the October Wine Market, the November Plum Market, and the December Taofu Market.

If you don't go to Rongzhou, Zizhou, Suining, and Lizhou, these places are the gathering places of salt merchants, sugar merchants, and medicinal herb merchants, even if you go to Yazhou, it is stronger than Kuizhou, and Tubo merchants are also merchants. In addition to the convenience of guarding the Yangtze River, Fengjie is full of mountains and gorges and valleys, and there is no fart.

But Hong Tao doesn't think so, prosperity and wealth have advantages but also disadvantages. Originally, the Shu people were relatively closed, and their customs and habits were self-contained, and they were relatively more xenophobic.

The more economic development areas are, the more carefully the local gentry and eunuchs control their own one-third of an acre, and outsiders want to quickly become bigger and stronger, and the resistance will be greater.

Hong Tao is not afraid of competition, but he just doesn't want to cause too much friction within Sichuan. Once the imperial court suspects that he is doing trouble in Sichuan, it will inevitably attract more suspicion, and not only will Sichuan's industry not be able to keep it, but it will also cause a chain reaction, and the gains outweigh the losses.

Fengjie is a little off, but it is not too poor, after all, it is the throat of Sichuan, or the Kuizhou Governance Office, and the flow of personnel is good. It is precisely because the local area is not as rich as the western Sichuan Plain that it is more enthusiastic about business, and as long as there are interests, it is more willing to accept new things.

As for the inconvenience of one-way transportation, Hong Tao thinks so. For now, I don't need to send too many goods to Sichuan, almost all raw materials can be found in the Bashu region, as long as it is convenient to go out of Sichuan.

If you want to talk about Sichuan, I am afraid that Lizhou, which is known as the throat of Shu, is not as advantageous as Fengjie. The goods sent from here can be loaded down the river and can reach all cities in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and can also be changed to sea ships halfway to enter the Bohai Sea in the north, the South China Sea in the East China Sea, and the Sea of Japan in the east.

Another advantage is that it can enter Dongting Lake from Baling, and spread the goods to the entire Jinghu North Road and the hinterland of Jinghu South Road through Lishui, Huanshui, Zishui, Xiangshui and Mishui.

This area is far from the coast and canals, and the cost of transportation by land is high and slow, and if a transshipment terminal can be built in Dongting Lake, it will not be worrying in the future.

There is also a small reason that Hong Tao is also considering, Wang Seventeen's hometown is Fengjie, it doesn't matter if his parents die, if there is still someone in the family, isn't it a natural helper.

The wandering children went to Mingzhou, and met nobles in the local area, not only grew up smoothly, but also returned to their hometown with medical skills to recognize their ancestors and return to their ancestors, and to contribute to the construction of their hometown!

This story compiled by Wang Shi is worthy of publicity and praise even if it is put to future generations, and if it is used well, it can provide great convenience for quickly opening up the situation and gaining a firm foothold on Monday and Sunday, and it will not arouse too much suspicion among the locals. Even if it develops in the future, it will be a local industry, so there are many fewer worries.

Seeing off the group on Monday, Hong Tao immediately entered the work mode and began to build in the garden. To the outside world, it is said that the eldest prince mainly built a ritual pagoda to pray for the blessing of his biological mother in Kaifeng. is so filial, I don't forget the queen mother in Yangzhou, a good daughter.

It took two months to complete the tower, and the whole body was built by stone. Unlike the traditional pagoda, the eldest princess's ritual stupa is not hexagonal or octagonal, only four corners, boxy much like the western tower, the top floor has four large windows on all sides, and there is nothing empty inside.

If Empress Dowager Gao knew what this tower was for, she would immediately have to arrest her son-in-law back to Kaifeng and break his leg. The liturgical stupa is simply a façade, it is actually a bell tower. Hong Tao wants to build a double-sided bell at the top of the tower, not a bell but a clock for a clock, or a self-striking bell.

It will serve as the standard for 24 hours a day, establishing the modern concept of time. And the pocket watches born from the small courtyard next to them are like the little apprentices of this big clock. They will quietly enter every household, emphasizing the concept in everyone's ears every minute and every moment until it is recognized by everyone.

But this is all for later, there are no big bells or pocket watches, there are only Wang Xin, four young apprentices of the children's group who learned mechanical manufacturing in the third phase, and a Jewish coppersmith named Lihaham, and six smelting and forging craftsmen.

The twelve of them are all members of Seiko Machinery, and for many years to come, they will continue to manufacture and perfect Seiko pocket watches and Seiko clocks, and train generations of watchmakers and pioneers of precision mechanics.

At present, all they have are two small smelting furnaces, a small forging furnace, three Huang's lathes, drilling machines, milling machines, and Wang Xin's bucket watch. Because it is big, it can only be put in the pocket, and if it is hung on the chest, it can be used as a heart guard.

This is also the reason why Hong Tao did not propose to make watches directly, with the current materials and processing accuracy, it is already difficult to make pocket watches, the difficulty of watches is too great, and the yield is too low.

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